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1964 Canadian Nation Challenge Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16837243 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1964 Canadian National Challenge Cup was won by Vancouver Columbus who defeated the Sudbury Italian Flyers.

The Canadian National Challenge Cup, also known as The Challenge Trophy, is a national amateur football (soccer) cup in Canada contested by the champions of individual provincial soccer competitions.

In the Eastern Canada Amateur Soccer Championship, the St. Paul Rovers of Montreal and Sudbury Italia Flyers were left in a tie, 2-2, on August 30, 1964,

The St. Anthony Italia went on to defeat the Montreal St. Paul Rovers 4–2, in the tie-breaking game in Sudbury on September 12, 1964.

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“1964 Canadian Nation Challenge Cup” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Canadian, Nation and Challenge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Canadian, Nation and Challenge.
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This entry incorporates text from “1964 Canadian Nation Challenge Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.